Obama Gets a C from the Center for Biological Diversity?
January 21st, 2010President Barack Obama’s first year in office has been a good news/bad news story for the environment, according to the Center for Biological Diversity.
Overall, the Center for Biological Diversity gives the president’s environmental record so far a “C.”
Why?
“Obama’s record, while much better than Bush’s, is disappointing so far,” the group’s executive director, Kierán Suckling, said in a press release. “He has not lived up to his campaign promises by a long shot.”
“Luckily,” Suckling said, “there’s still time to get him back on track: We have to show him America cares.”
On endangered species, the Obama administration revoked some damaging Bush-era policies, but also stripped protection from gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and the Great Lakes region.
On climate, his administration followed the Supreme Court’s lead and declared carbon dioxide a threat to human health and welfare…
